Hehe, I was talking with some friends who are also learning japanese about this. One just wanted to do it for a bit of fun and isn't too serious. Another would love to go and visit japan and wants to know how to talk to a few people a little. My goal is fairly simple hehe. I wanna go sit in a coffee house somewhere in japan, tokyo maybe, and be able to read a japanese news paper. :p Easy!... Not!

My goal is to someday live in Japan, maybe for a few years, maybe my whole life. I'm only 16, that sort of thing seems a liiitle far away for me. I would also like to just become generally fluent for no specific reason at all other than that I like Japan and its language, and I feel slightly self-obligated to learn Japanese because I used to live there but wasn't old enough to actually learn any of it even though I was there almost two years.

I'd like to learn Japanese simply for something to do, although I might like to make business trips there sometime. My goal is to have mastered 4 kyuu kanji by January, and 3 kyuu by maybe September of 2006. I hope to be near fluent in 2 years. For no harder than I can find myself able to work at this, however, these goals seem a bit challenging. It would be nice if I could take a class on Japanese, but at my high school, only Spanish is offered. Oh well, I'll try my best.

i would love to take 2 languages for school German and Japanese, but yeah my school only offers spanish french and american sighn language, i guess ill go with sign language lol. anyone think lets learn hiragana is a good book im considering buying it

Goals:
1) Have decent proficiency in Japanese, enough to get around/talk/read/write.
2) Visit Japan for a week or so one summer.